Re: Reduce the number of special cases to build contrib modules on windows

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reduce the number of special cases to build contrib modules on windows
Date: 2021-07-28 00:07:15
Message-ID: CAApHDvpUj4ip=U69M2NyvcLYn_Hq_u6SEhOWD0mDBhU2sCn9hA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 02:33, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > 0001: Removes an include directory for dblink. This appears like it's
> > not needed. It was added in ee3b4188a (Jan 2010), but an earlier
> > commit, 320c7eb8c (June 2008) seems to have made it pointless. It's
> > still a mystery to me why ee3b4188a would have been required in the
> > first place.
>
> FWIW, I poked around in the mailing list archives around that date
> and couldn't find any supporting discussion. It does seem like it
> shouldn't be needed, given that dblink's Makefile does no such thing.

I think the reason is that src/backend/utils/Makefile symlinks
fmgroids.h into src/include/utils. The copy you added in 320c7eb8c
seems to be the MSVC build's equivalent of that.

David

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